The United States and Panama will work together to take back the Panama Canal from “China’s influence,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday while standing in front of the vital shipping lane.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Panama Canal faces "ongoing threats" as he singled out China during a visit to the key trade route on Tuesdau. The big picture: Hegseth's comments following a ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the United States is supporting the Panamanians’ efforts to push China out of the Panama Canal. Hegseth met with Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino on Tuesday ...

Panama’s comptroller authority says an audit found irregularities in the renewal of a 25-year port concession in the interoceanic canal and it would request an investigation into the authorization of ...

(CNN) — Chinese antitrust regulators are investigating a US consortium’s deal for two ports in the Panama Canal zone, reportedly delaying the deal’s closing that was originally set for next ...

referring to the United States’s 1904 payment of $10 million to Panama and 33 subsequent payments of $250,000 for the U.S.-led construction and control of the “Canal Zone” under the Hay ...

which owns and operates the ports at Balboa and Cristóbal at either end of the Panama Canal.” Panama also announced in February it would allow its participation in the CCP’s Belt and Road ...

Chinese antitrust regulators are investigating a US consortium’s deal for two ports in the Panama Canal zone, reportedly delaying the deal’s closing that was originally set for next week. President ...

Panama Ports won the concession to operate Balboa, located near the Pacific end of the Panama Canal, and Cristobal, in the Atlantic, in 1997. The contract was renewed in 2021 for 25 more years.